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Not Always a Black Box: Machine Learning Approaches For Model Explainability

Conferences Guest contributor Modeling ODSC Speaker black box Interpretabilityposted by Violeta Misheva August 5, 2019

What is model explainability? Imagine that you have built a very precise machine learning model by using clever tricks and non-standard features. You are beyond happy and proud. However, when you present your results to your stakeholders, they are less thrilled. They don’t understand what you did and why.... Read more

Bias Variance Decompositions using XGBoost

Guest contributor Machine Learning Modeling bias varianceposted by RAPIDS August 1, 2019

This blog dives into a theoretical machine learning concept called the bias-variance decomposition. This decomposition is a method which examines the expected generalization error for a given learning algorithm and a given data source. This helps us understand questions like: – How can I achieve higher accuracy with my... Read more

10 Minutes to cuDF and Dask cuDF

Guest contributor Modeling daskposted by RAPIDS July 31, 2019

Centered around Apache Arrow DataFrames on the GPU, RAPIDS is designed to enable end-to-end data science and analytics on GPUs. Together, open source libraries like RAPIDS cuDF and Dask let users process tabular data on GPUs at scale with a familiar, pandas-like API. With Dask, anything you can do... Read more

Nightly News: CI produces latest packages

Guest contributor rapidsposted by RAPIDS July 30, 2019

“Release code early and often” is a software engineering philosophy that RAPIDS takes to heart. We try to release about every six weeks or so, partly to keep up the pace of feature development, but also so RAPIDS users don’t get stuck on older versions of our software for too long.... Read more

Roles & Responsibilities of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Accelerate AI Education Guest contributor Educationposted by Steffen Carter July 18, 2019

Technology has developed by leaps and bounds and it has penetrated into our daily lives in so many ways. It almost seems as if one cannot live without technology because our dependence on it has increased by many folds. Artificial intelligence remains to be a hot topic for the... Read more

Are Successful Data Scientists Hired or Trained?

Accelerate AI Featured Post Guest contributor West 2019posted by Jennifer Redmon July 17, 2019

Editor’s note: Jennifer is a speaker for ODSC West 2019 this November in San Francisco! Be sure to check out her talk, “Successful Enterprise Analytics Starts with Literacy” then! The data science valley of despair is real. Time after time, leaders who’re well-versed in case studies and industry research... Read more

The New Life of the Travel Industry with Artificial Intelligence

Accelerate AI Guest contributor Predictive Analytics Transportationposted by Ralabs July 16, 2019

The new online opportunities for travelers has a negative influence on touristic companies. A large number of their potential clients prefer to arrange their vacations on the internet instead of going to travel agencies. But there are a lot of ways new technologies, like AI, can actually help travel... Read more

The 4 Most Important Traits to Look for When Hiring an AI Expert

Accelerate AI Guest contributor Accelerate AI Hiringposted by Manish Dudharejia July 1, 2019

Although AI gets a lot of heat for putting millions of people out of jobs – thanks to its automation properties – it is also creating opportunities for many to start promising careers in data science. Regardless, there can be a lot of roadblocks when hiring an ai expert. ... Read more

How Product Managers Learn About AI Meeting Peak Effectiveness

Accelerate AI Guest contributor Accelerate AI Businessposted by Mark Cramer June 21, 2019

The most frequent question I get about AI from colleagues, product managers, and others, is, “What do I need to know about AI and what’s the best way to learn it?” I’ve invested a considerable amount of time taking numerous courses, so I dug into my emails to collect... Read more

The Empirical Derivation of the Bayesian Formula

Guest contributor Machine Learning Modeling Statistics bayseian Machine Learningposted by Jannes Klaas June 18, 2019

Editor’s note: James is a speaker for ODSC London this November! Be sure to check out his talk, “The How, Why, and When of Replacing Engineering Work with Compute Power” there. Deep learning has been made practical through modern computing power, but it is not the only technique benefiting... Read more